> This presumes the seed never ceases to be a monode during its growth,
> and stops growing after it has reached a certain spatial
> dimension. (Of course, the chiefest objection is how you make that
> seed to grow, and how do you keep it from going off in other places
> you don't want, while the thing is out of your hands). Since this
> clearly limits its sphere of influence, it either keeps everybody
> tucked in, or has to make a remote clone of itself, creating a
> population of SIs. By keeping it brittle, the clone never grows
> malign, and by design it never infringes on other sysop's domain.

Wow! A population of SIs that never grows malign. Sounds like a friendly kind of
AI.

--J. R.

Each generation criticizes the unconscious assumptions made by its parents. It
may assent to them, but it brings them out in the open. WHITEHEAD